Word: cult
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country's Communists. "Anti-India, antipeople, anti-progress," he called them, "dazzled by Russia and China, but ignorant of India. They are without moorings in the land of their birth. They are pledged to a policy of creating mental and physical conflicts. They indulge in a cult of disruption...
...many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas in Rio in 1949, 124,000 in 1950; today there are some 400,000, and the national total runs into millions...
...these same advances are also responsible for the distribution and popularity of joke box music and comic books. The present demand for abridgements of worthwhile literature, the commercialization of folk arts, and the popularization of classical music is definitely indicative of our entering the age of the cult of the slob," the concluded...
...cult counsels "personal adjustment." But adjustment to what? New Testament Christianity is hardly adjusted to its environment. It makes us seriously wonder, in fact, how much the social order is worth adjusting to. The gospel urges us to nonconformity: "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked...
...past half century, the U.S. has taken more and more seriously the cult of youthfulness. Walt Whitman, the 19th century's great poet, was too realistic for any cult, best celebrated old age in this breath-taking line...